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IRA NAPPIN AND 'FRANKLIN S. MARR, OF FARMINGTON, ILLINOIS.

WAGON END-GATE FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 688,540, dated December 10, 1901.

Application filed March l2, 1901- Serial No. 50,872. (No model.) l

T0 a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, IRA NAPPIN and FRANKLIN S. MARR, citizens of the' United States, residing at Farmington, in the county of Fulton and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Wagon End-Gate Fastenings; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

This invention. relates to new and useful improvements in end-gates for wagons; and it consists in the provision of metallic strips which are grooved and secured to the inner faces of the side-boards adjacent to their rear l ends and metallic strips which are secured to the end-gate,which is made, preferably, of two pieces hinged together at the center, the lugs on the end-board adapted to engage in sock; ets inthe metallic'strips fastened to the sideboards of the wagon..

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, withthe letters of reference marked thereon, form part of this specification, and in which drawings- Figure 1 is a rear elevation of an end-board of a wagon shown as applied to the box. Fig.

2 is an elevation of one of the strips which'is adapted to be secured to the side-board of the Wagon. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view horizontally on line 3 3 of'Fig. l. Fig. l is an enlarged detail view in perspective of one of the socket-strips which is fastened to the sideboard, the ends being broken away. Fig. 5 is a detail View, and Fig. 6 isa view showing the two sections of the end-gate which are adapted to be hinged together at their adjacent edges.

Reference being had to the details of the drawings by letter, F F designate two complemental sections of the end-board, which are hinged together at their meeting edges.`

Fastened to the inner face of each side-board adjacent to their rear ends are strips A, which are longitudinally grooved, as at T, and S S designate apertures'in said metallic strips, one wall of each aperture being convex,as at S'. (Shown clearly in Figs. 3 and l ofthe drawings.) The rib portion T,Fig. 2, is reinforced, as at R, at locations adjacent to said apervslots in the metallic strips A.

In applying our improved end-gate to the wagonthe outer ends of the hinged sections of the end-gate are inserted in the manner illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, and aft-er the hooked end of the'lug B is insertedlwithin the groove in the metallic strip A the end of ,the section F is swung s o that the convex surface F comes in contact with'the concaved surface A', andn the sections of the end-gate 'may be held'together in any suitable manner.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim tobe new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isfx An end-gate for wagons comprising in combination with the Wagon, the metallic strips A secured to the inner faces of the side-boards adjacent to their rea-r ends, each metallic strip having a recess with a convex surface S', and

Va groove with a concaved bottom A combined `with a hinged end-gate, a metallic strip D secured adjacent to the outer end of each hinged.

IRA NAPPIN. FRANKLIN S. MARR.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM ELLIOTT, J. W. MARTIN. 

